Summary

A meeting last week in the Senegalese capital not only was the first physics conference spanning the continent but also became a rally for African science, including the establishment of a new African Physical Society. On the minds of many here was the Square Kilometre Array, a next-generation radio telescope that will probe gas clouds in the early universe with a collecting area 100 times that of the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico. A lengthy site-selection process has already eliminated China and South America, leaving just Africa and Australia.

African Physicists Set Their Sights on Mammoth Scope

By John Bohannon

Science22 Jan 2010 : 400

On the minds of many at a meeting last week in the Senegalese capital was the Square Kilometre Array, a next-generation radio telescope that will probe gas clouds in the early universe with a collecting area 100 times that of the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico. It is planned to be built in either Africa or Australia.

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African Physicists Set Their Sights on Mammoth Scope

By John Bohannon

Science22 Jan 2010 : 400

On the minds of many at a meeting last week in the Senegalese capital was the Square Kilometre Array, a next-generation radio telescope that will probe gas clouds in the early universe with a collecting area 100 times that of the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico. It is planned to be built in either Africa or Australia.